As others have mentioned below, there’s no proof, but I am 100% with you on this and have said it before myself, cheaters mean money. Not only do they repeatedly purchase copies of the game/game accounts, but they also drive up player statistics and flood the in-game economies (mostly for real world gain but guess who…

Yeah, and I know some cheaters do make an effort to conceal it but that’s mostly at higher levels. The degree I’m talking about are the ones snapping onto heads with nothing but one shot headshots through objects, walls, other players etc. I don’t know if that’s worse than trying to hide it?

The toxicity in Fortnite is an interesting one, as it’s all secondhand so to speak being as it’s mostly the “sweaty” play styles (build battles etc) and the emotes that make it obvious when someone is a sore winner/loser.

Exactly. Battle Royale EXISTS because of Arma 3 BR. You know how many cheaters I saw in that game mode in all my hours/years? None. Even in DayZ it was rarer than most of these games.

I haven’t played Apex since before the introduction of seasons etc but I did play it very early on before the tutorial was even in. I liked it then and I’m sure I’ll like it now. One thing that really drove me away from that game was the gunshot sounds. Much like CSGO does, the normal overall volume is say 100% and…

Just going to drop this in here for perspective, top result on Google, US based by the look of it. I call it “Shit you can do that’s deemed less bad or equal to piracy” list.

Just got back into CSGO 6 years after taking a break, only played a handful of times in the years since. After a week of playing solidly, I have to say I’m absolutely done with the game. It has been so toxic and infested with suspect players, some subtle, others not so much.

I would hardly know where to begin. Do you mean, in fixing our own culture or in assisting others to fix theirs? Because you kind of can’t have one without the other and they both require serious work.

I can see your point and to a degree I agree. But then, if not for the people who have the power, speaking out, where would we be today? I would expect a person more immersed in the culture to understand the threat level of these two issues.

This is a really informative and well thought out counterpoint. Thanks for sharing. I now understand more fully why we’re in the situation we’re in.

Again, who mentioned the “soviet confederation”? Putin however... I don’t need to waste my time going through what yet another “little lord” does with his time. The information is out there for you to find. Safe to say Russia and China essentially aren’t much different to what they were.

Hello, 3kdEUS.

Which is precisely what I said. They’ve tried to move on productively. It’s not as good as actually atoning for your crimes, but Japan is no Russia, or China. Spain very much to a lesser degree than any and all of these, but their handling of the potential separation of Catalonia was heavy handed and corrupt to say…

Have you seen their handling of Catalan?

Huh? Who mentioned the Soviet Union?

I didn’t mean to imply that they had appropriately addressed their past transgressions, in fact my point was actually that aside from that they have attempted to progress.

More than just Korea, their history is fraught with East Asian compatriots that they invaded and defiled.

Twitch is an absolute *dumpster fire* right now.

I’m really disappointed in this article and in you, Brian.

Well, the irony is that those countries not only DON’T rescind their fascist past tendencies but are very much still in throes of some sort of fascist authoritarian regimes.